TorrentFreak: Fansubbers Take Anti-Piracy Group BREIN to Court
A group of fan-made subtitle creators are taking the Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN to court. The fansubbers want a Dutch court to decide whether their activities are protected by freedom of...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Astro Pi: Mission Update 8 – ISS Deployment
Ed and Izzy On Monday this week we released the first of four short cartoons that tell the story of the Astro Pi mission. Part 1 introduces Ed and Izzy, the two Astro Pi flight units that are up in...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Security vs. Surveillance
Both the "going dark" metaphor of FBI Director James Comey and the contrasting "golden age of surveillance" metaphor of privacy law professor Peter Swire focus on the value of data to law enforcement....
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Safeway Self-Checkout Skimmer Close Up
In Dec. 2015, KrebsOnSecurity warned that security experts had discovered skimming devices attached to credit and debit card terminals at self-checkout lanes at Safeway stores in Colorado and possibly...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Wednesday
Arch Linux has updated lib32-nettle (improper cryptographic calculations) and nettle (improper cryptographic calculations). Debian has updated openjdk-6 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated...
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Darknet – The Darkside: Malwarebytes Bug Bounty Program Goes Live
So Malwarebytes bug bounty program is live, the official name is actually Malwarebytes Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Program – what a mouthful (guidelines here). It’s good to see, bug bounty...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: 66% of Aussie Downloaders Also Pay For Netflix-like Services
While people who obtain content from unofficial online sources are often painted as freeloaders, there is a growing understanding that they can also be some of the entertainment industry's best...
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AWS Security Blog: AWS FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Overlay...
I’m pleased to announce a newly created resource for usage of the Federal Cloud—after successfully completing the testing phase of the FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Overlay pilot program,...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 4, 2016
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 4, 2016 is available.
View ArticleErrata Security: Lawfare thinks it can redefine π, and backdoors
There is gulf between how people believe law to work (from watching TV shows like Law and Order) and how law actually works. You lawyer people know what I'm talking about. It's laughable.The same is...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Google Targets Fake ‘Download’ and ‘Play’ Buttons
Google says it will go to war against the fake 'download' and 'play' buttons that attempt to deceive users on file-sharing and other popular sites. An extension of its 'Safe Browsing' initiative...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: The Internet of Things Will Be the World’s Biggest Robot
The Internet of Things is the name given to the computerization of everything in our lives. Already you can buy Internet-enabled thermostats, light bulbs, refrigerators, and cars. Soon everything will...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Submersible Raspberry Pi drone
We found something rather fabulous on YouTube. Niels Affourtit has taken his home-made underwater drone (or ROV – Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle) from bathtub tests to real-world deployment in a...
View ArticleLWN.net: Thursday’s security advisories
Debian-LTS has updated openjdk-6 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated nodejs-is-my-json-valid (F23: denial of service), phpmyadmin (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), and prosody (F22: insecure...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: MPAA Takes Over Popcorn Time Domain
The MPAA is now the owner of Popcorntime.io, the domain name which was the home of the most used Popcorn Time fork up until last November. The change of ownership suggests that the Hollywood group...
View ArticleLWN.net: First Ubuntu Touch Tablet Brings Convergence at Last (Linux.com)
Over at Linux.com, Eric Brown looks at the newly announced Ubuntu Touch tablet. The hardware: "The Aquaris M10 is equipped with a 64-bit, quad-core, Cortex-A53 MediaTek MT8163A system-on-chip clocked...
View Articlexkcd.com: To Taste
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleTorrentFreak: PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services
After cutting off file-hosting sites and Usenet providers, PayPal is now taking aim at VPN and SmartDNS services. The payment processor states that services which can be used to bypass measures to...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Dr Who theme on a Pi Zero
I am an unabashed synthesiser nerd. I grew up in the 1980s on a rich diet of Gary Numan, the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure, and had my own Roland Juno 60 (approximately fourth hand and very battered) in my...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Tracking Anonymous Web Users
This research shows how to track e-commerce users better across multiple sessions, even when they do not provide unique identifiers such as user IDs or cookies. Abstract: Targeting individual consumers...
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